CABLE BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4783, 26 July 1894, Page 2

CABLE BREVITIES.

Tho niisßing steamer Duckeifield '' has _ arrived at Newcastle from ' Napier, '• : ' f ' 1 'l'be yacht Valkyrio, which was 1 sunk in the Clyde, lias been:re- ' floated. ' . ' Wcllman's Arctic , expedition is i reported to have been lost'iioi'th of ' Spitzenburg. ' General Joubert lias impressed ' British subjects to servo in the Boer army atZoutsparisberg,; j The Chamber of Deputies has 1 approved; a measure inflicting .the 'penalty of transportation of : all ' persons . convicted of inciting to Anarchy, The Premier refusefj to listen to any aniendinerjts. .' jL ■ TheMoi'iiiSiGeysenntlipYojlqw. ' stone National Park lp beon con- ; verted into a volcanic crater. The change was. preceded by tv yiqlent ' expjosioi), in' which masses of rqck ' were ejected. ' An Ai'iiaut lias been arrested who 1 has confessed that lie lprdered M, Bulgarian Finance Minister,who, wa« sliotwhen lcav , jng a confectioner's shop in ou 27th Mavoh, 1801—with tho assist I tanoo' of another of the ; i Servian Consulate at Sofia,; ; , • The military authorities of Germany have finally decided to refuse i which they regard as worthless for practical purposes, In trials at . ■ Spandau the cuirass was pierced at 600 metres range,-'' '!• Sir Samuel Griffith has forwarded j to*the CJiief Secretary the correspondence iii "reference to illegal : w trading by New' Hebrides mission-' anes, which came' under his notice v si wlieii. Premier, and lias .added a Ss minute defending the Government ■s! agent in the matter against the mis- x| Slqiiarjes: and the High Ootqnjis />- -i sioner, despite the factthat the latter expressed ail opinion that tlie agent's statements were unworthy qf At the hearing of fte chaise qf *;|f PlurdeLV ijgajiist lira Needle, Q(ta Juiicker depqse(|:tl)at slie .was sub: ' jeefi to fjts, which generaHyqccmt'pd ill the evening, nut'often several I times onone day. Tlioy sometimes ;">! lasted for hours, during wiiich'sho . ?|)| was quite insonsible to ;pain:: On .' sevei-al occasions she had been n»- -.1 carried upstairs, remaining-.quits insensible to the dragging;, about. slie : ::tl§| i ; eeeived,-and at times her eyes wero -jl wide open "and the eyeballs were ."J touched Without effect/ : Her body , 'ill was often quito rigid, ' Whoa the de« 'as] tectives informed Mrs Needle Unit '|l poison had been • discovered: in tho bodies of her husband arid,children, j she replied: -—" A few .more, of my ••• ' « friends diedlately, vJcan; give you •: their names. The information w ill 'up " if you wauttodigthem